Read Lakeland Inc.

“Expenses advertising 194 office expenses 699 insurance 149 licenses 161 bank fees -1,168 computer & internet 2,417 dues & subscriptions 1,473 printing & copying 1,075 misc 39 non-investment depreciation 133 total 5,172”

“7,889 7,889 less accumulated depreciation 6,766 6,900 gift cards 100 100 total 1,223 1,089”

“Unsecured notes and loans payable 0 26,800 fica payable 958 967 medicare payable 224 226 w/h payable 501 501 suta payable 8 23 futa payable 46 114”

“Read lakeland, inc is a nonprofit 501 (c) (3) organization dedicated to teaching basic literacy skills that include reading, writing, math, and english language skills to adults who are low literate or speakers of other languages. Established in 1995 by volunteers as a community based organization organization to promote adult literacy, read lakeland has provided one-on-one and small group tutoring services to hundreds of adults in lakeland and surrounding areas. Read lakeland is dedicated to improving the quality of life in the community through teaching basic literacy skills to adult nonreaders and promoting adult and family literacy.”

“For all adults with low literacy skills who are willing to put forth the effort to learn, we provide a means to end the tragic cycle of illiteracy and its correlation with unemployment, poverty, and accompanying social ills. Read lakeland recruits, trains, matches, and supports volunteers who would like to tutor adults in need of literacy services. Read lakeland tutoring services include basic adult literacy support for adults preparing to enter a ged program or want to improve learning skills that that will help them gain entry to a higher level learning insitution, or for their personal improvement, and english as a second language (esl). All of our services are provided at no charge to the learner. While most of our tutoring is one-on-one ,we have small group tutoring in writing skills and english conversation.”